The Best Gifts Are Handmade

If there is one thing more fun than giving a gift, it’s giving a handmade gift! I know in this day and age, it is much quicker to run up to Wally World, grab something off the shelf, speed through the check out and throw it in a gift bag. But I like to hope that there are others out there, like myself, that appreciate the time, effort and love put into handmade items.

To celebrate all things handmade and to welcome a new bundle into this world, I stitched up this nursing cover for my dear friend Shea. She welcomed baby #2 into the world yesterday.

I’ve seen several different nursing covers out there in babyland, however I decided they were all just a little too plain for my taste. I love ruffles, I love frills, I love buttons! So I set out to make Shea’s little Butterbean something unique: a nursing cover that fits the bill for all the practical purposes, yet with a good dousing of hand-crafted charm.

A delicate polka-dotted ruffle lines the hem of the cover, while a bright hand-stitched zinnia dances in the corner. Each petal was hand-cut and a load of little buttons brighten up the flower’s center. Perfect!

I can’t wait to meet Miss Butterbean. Ok, I guess I have to stop calling her that. She actually has a name now – Colleen. Hmmm… Colleen the Butterbean. I like the sound of that.

Of course I love it! I took it with me to the hospital this time around and all of the nurses ohh'd and ahh'd. And my little Colleen really is a Butterbean. An 8 pound, 10 oz Butterbean!Thank you Auntie Krista!

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